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The team survived a difficult first season but, during the next four years,
enjoyed top half finishes and were GFA Challenge Trophy Finalists,
League Cup Finalists and, in 2003-04, were County League Runners-up.
Hellenic League football and Hellenic League status Division 1 [West]
arrived in 2004-05.
Season 2011-12 was to prove to be the first of three outstanding years
for Tytherington Rocks. The 1st team finished 18 points clear to win the
Uhlsport Hellenic League Division 1 [West] title, followed by a 3rd place
and then champions again in 2013-14, this time by 5 points. However,
once again, in 2014, as in previous years, a transfer request to move to
the Toolstation Western League was rejected by the FA.
This refusal had a devastating effect on the club with players and team
management of both 1st team and Reserves leaving en masse.
History will record that several managers and committee members
worked tirelessly to ensure the survival of the club during the following
four seasons.
The 2018/2019 season ended with all 3 teams (U18, Reserves and 1st
team) all completing their programmes, although they all finished in the
penultimate positions in their respective League divisions.
Between August 2019 and Sept 2021, Rocks experienced major changes
both on and off the field.
The Reserves had folded mid season in 2020, an U18 team had run its
course and a Ladies team had arrived and left. Numerous committee,
management, and playing staff departures and arrivals took place during
2 seasons destroyed by the Coronavirus.
One welcome achievement did materialise however. Rocks won the 2020
Beaufort Cup, an end of season competition run by the Bristol Premier
Sunday League.
As the 2021/2022 season approached, the Club move (at long last) from
the Hellenic League to the Toolstation Western League, and the
Coronavirus subsided (hopefully).
The new team management, led by Tiago Carreiras and Jake Edwards
prepared the team thoroughly. Alongside them, Chris Shearwood and
Darren Hoare introduced a second team currently in the Suburban
Premier League. Has a new era arrived? Time will tell.